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"Skepticism, as a disposition, arises from desire, not contempt." – Anon.

THE NEW WAY

“…Something in my mind shifted to the other extreme, suggesting infinitely dimensioned space ...but then, it was all a metaphor of desperation. Truly and simply, I did not understand anything about it. I had only a growing feeling – pattern-conditioned? Instinctive? – that I had to pass through this maze to gain the new degree of power that I sought.”– Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles [paraphrased]

STATEMENT

A meditation on the waning days of western metaphysics via the art-historical trope of the harlequin—this time re-imagined as a Black Metal-music reveler. These are corpse painted figures imbibing in a bacchanal of alcohol and religious euphoria. They are the Freudian Id, loosed and drunk with a mal-appropriated spirituality.

Using structures of iconic, Christian painting and the illuminated manuscript, the work endeavors to create a confluence of reverence and irreverence. These paintings strive to depict a desire for meaning, faced with the fear that meaning has ultimately receded in our world.

Think of it as a gnostic conversation (albeit a drunken conversation) ...an "after party" of civilization's metaphysical/religious beliefs.